Bug reports thread
[Update: 8 October 2006] This is no longer the proper location for reporting bugs. From now on, use the bug reporting page within the Sindarkwiki.
Found something wrong with a sibilant intake of breath or an associated site I run? Please report it here. I try to get everything operating as well as I possibly can, but there will always be oversights. Right now, when people report them, they tend to do so all over the place and it’s hard to keep track.
This covers all types of errors not directly related to a particular post: compatibility errors, access errors, formatting errors, etc.
Those who contribute here will earn fame and fortune. Well, my appreciation, at least. If you posted an unresolved issue on another post, please copy it over here.
Many thanks.
May 22nd, 2006 at 7:40 pm
10,000 points to anyone who can help solve the following problem:
Back when I used Blogger for content management, it generated two types of static HTML pages: post pages and archive pages.
The post pages were (and are) kept in folders within the root directory of http://www.sindark.com, sorted first by year, then by numerical month, then as a collection of files. The archive pages were (and are) kept within a folder called http://www.sindark.com/archive. Within that folder, there is one static HTML page for each month of this blog.
All of these pages have been indexed by Google.
When I switched to WordPress, I gave it control over http://www.sindark.com, putting a file called index.php in the root directory. I moved the no-longer updated Blogger version to http://www.sindark.com/blogger. It generated a new set of post and archive pages there.
Google has not indexed these.
I want to get rid of the original pages and automatically redirect people to the new locations, after they find them through Google. I suspect I can do this through htaccess, but I don’t know the syntax.
Can anybody help?
Many thanks.
May 22nd, 2006 at 8:01 pm
I hasten to add - though Meghan will already been entirely familiar - that, like on Who’s Line is it Anyway?, the points I issue are notional.
May 22nd, 2006 at 9:12 pm
RTFM
May 22nd, 2006 at 9:23 pm
B,
As far as I know, this question has nothing to do with PHP or MySQL.
It might be a helpful book, regardless.
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
might help…
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Ooops!
This might help…
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:39 pm
On another note, the background colour of some of the comments doesn’t work very well with the font and links colours - or at least on my computer at work.
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Jo,
Re: htaccess
Since I do have both post and archive pages, the technique described in that thread doesn’t really apply. Also, I want to direct people from the old location of the Blogger pages to the new location of the Blogger pages - not to the equivalent WP pages.
Re: fonts and comments,
Compatibility is always an incredibly difficult thing to deal with. I test regularly on Firefox and IE6, where this template mostly works well (best in Firefox). I also use Safari to have a look, but it gets pretty mangled. In terms of rending pages, Safari is absolutely the worst browser out there. The latest version of Opera also seems to work for this template.
Which browser and version are you using?
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:07 pm
It’s IE6 on windows - the colour’s just a bit dark.
As for the blogger stuff, I’d just say delete them. It won’t take google long to pick up the new URLs
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Brightness and darkness are especially tricky, since there are so many bad and poorly adjusted monitors out there. For contrast, especially, the cheap new LCD monitors cropping up everywhere are especially bad. I shudder to see some of my nicer photos displayed upon them.
As for the URLs, when I shifted my blog from sindark.blogspot.com to sindark.com, it took Google more than three months to figure it out, and longer to assign PageRanks. I think figuring out how to forward by htaccess is a rather better option.
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 pm
# BEGIN Custom
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sindark.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sindark.com/1 [L,R=301]
Redirect 301 /archive http://www.sindark.com/blogger/archive/
Redirect 301 /2005 http://www.sindark.com/blogger/2005/
Redirect 301 /2006 http://www.sindark.com/blogger/2005/
# END Custom
That should do it.
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:34 pm
@God,
I tried that. It breaks WordPress, because WordPress also uses 2005 and 2006 as directories:
http://www.sindark.com/2006/03/
I need one that redirects people to /blogger/2006/ for files ending in .html and leaves people where they are for files ending in .php
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:35 pm
That first bit is helpful, also.
For the confused, it redirects people who go to http://sindark.com to http://www.sindark.com.
This is good for search engines.
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I posted this issue on Ask Metafilter, as well.
June 6th, 2006 at 2:04 am
Note to self: write a post explaining RSS syndication for those who have no idea what it is. Teach them how to subscribe to this blog in different ways.
June 18th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Syndication and RSS: a simple introduction
June 25th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
I fixed the crazy formatting that had arisen on the my photos page.
I don’t trust the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. It has done some really screwy stuff on my watch. It is especially bad at closing formatting tags.
July 19th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
I fixed some previously broken links on the sham LiveJournal.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:43 pm
[...] PPS. I just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4. Please report any bugs you come across on the bug reports page. Note also that, due to a barrage of spam comments, I have tightened the comment filtering settings. My apologies if any of your comments get zapped by the filters. [...]
August 8th, 2006 at 10:15 am
[...] As always, any technical problems with the blog should be reported on the bug thread. [...]
August 11th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Since such a large number of people find a certain photo of Tallinn through Google Image Search and, since they haven’t updated their DB since I switched to WordPress, I added the following small redirect to my htaccess file to take them to the right page:
Redirect 301 /archive/2005_12_01_sibilant_archive.html http://www.sindark.com/2005/12/18/tallinn/
It would be better to have redirects for all the old permalinks, but to do so is beyond my level of expertise. One Google Image Search finally comes to comprehend the new structure, perhaps things will start working on their own.
August 11th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
One wrinkle in the above, people looking for other images from that month will all get sent to the most commonly sought one.
August 13th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
The Penny Arcade link on my links page is broken.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Note to self: make a static page like the ‘my photos’ page that links to collections of entries from all the trips described here. My travels, or somesuch.
August 26th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Favicon not appearing beside your feeds in BlogLines? See this.
August 30th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
“Note to self: make a static page like the ‘my photos’ page that links to collections of entries from all the trips described here. My travels, or somesuch.”
Done
A good long-term project might be to re-vamp or redo the template for my second year at Oxford. That would need a new template entirely, modified and personalized.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Blogroll updated:
EternalBlog removed due to lack of updates
Bookworm, in vino veritas, and Vatican in IR added
September 1st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
One task for the future: verify ownership of my feed in BlogLines. This requires adding some code to my template and other code to a post.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
You should separate bug reports from general housekeeping issues.
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:18 am
verify ownership of my feed in BlogLines. This requires adding some code to my template and other code to a post.
Done. Also, I added a reduced version of my banner to the top of the main BlogLines feed.
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:19 am
The Penny Arcade link on my links page is broken.
Fixed, though there is a spelling error at the bottom of that page: “Version 1.72 – 14 Augusr 2006″
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:28 am
“EternalBlog removed due to lack of updates”
Seth says he is going to start posting again, so I restored him to the blogroll.
September 29th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
http://www.taylorowen.com/ is not longer updated.
Cut it from your blogroll.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Fix the links in this comment.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
…a hand reaches from the sky and, with a vermillion flash, it is done.
October 7th, 2006 at 12:07 am
Note to self:
There is an abortive installation of MediaWiki 1.7.1 at http://www.sindark.com/wiki
It cannot be installed, at present, because GoDaddy doesn’t include PHP 5.0.0
The plan was to use it to a) replace this bug thread b) amalgamate some thesis related stuff c) experiment with a wiki
October 7th, 2006 at 12:55 am
[...] [Update: 12:30am] I am in the process of upgrading to the next version of GoDaddy virtual linux hosting, primarily because I need support for PHP 5.0 for an project. As usual, please report and horrific consequences of the transition on the bug report thread. Part of the purpose of the upgrade is to replace that thread with something better. [...]
August 15th, 2008 at 12:19 am
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